Ayrton Senna

Teq · 21 Mar 2010 at 21:34

Wish they would stop quoting Ayrton about Bruno, his career was put to a halt because of his uncle's early demise, he's good but a lot of his potential has been lost, I guess only time will tell how much of his obvious raw talent remains..

Dup · 21 Mar 2010 at 22:20

I think I remember that race. I was 8 then but I'm pretty sure I was watching at the time. I wouldn't have known him like many older people have but the internet and YouTube is great tutor for these things.

You can see how easy it is to pass on crashing those cars. Sat so forward with your head fully exposed, rattling down the gearbox with your hand off the wheel trying to fight the G as you trail brake into a corner and get your other hand back on the wheel. Looking at todays cars it's a wonder they see anything, but they have survived some epic moments when it's gone wrong.

RIP Ayrton - an epic story of what history tells me an epic driver.

SoliD · 21 Mar 2010 at 23:30

R.I.P the greatest to have lived imo. Never really liked him due to being a williams fan when younger but I still love reading about stuff I was too young to remember nowadays and watching the vids, a proper racer, shame we don't get to see anywhere near as much action as he provided anymore.

craigieboy · 21 Mar 2010 at 23:50

Best 1st lap ever!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8EV0gIWw5o

[TW]Fox · 22 Mar 2010 at 00:27

Fantastic vid made all the more fantastic by the fact I've driven round that circuit

el_dazza · 22 Mar 2010 at 01:28

I love that video JRS. I was watching an old video I bought in 1997, Murray's Magic Moments and part of that lap was in it. I'll never forget it, it's just an incredible lap.

RIP Ayrton. The greatest.

Wicksta · 22 Mar 2010 at 12:28

Wow that video proves if anything that camera technology can be 'too good' sometimes. You don't get anything like that kind of shake or sense of speed anymore.

Sod HD, bring back the old equipment from 20 years ago.

Burned_Alive · 22 Mar 2010 at 16:18

Teq said:
Him, Mansell and Prost are what made F1 what it was back then. Bring back manual gear boxes and rattle the drivers around like that again, we'll soon see who the real men are

Ironically Senna is also part of what made F1 what it is now.

Absolute legend, my favourite driver ever.

cheets64 · 22 Mar 2010 at 18:12

malc30 said:
I'll Never forget watching him Die.

R.I.P Ayrton Senna a True Legend.

He was still alive when he went to the Hospital, so you didn't and that is a very disrespectful thing to say.

uknowist · 22 Mar 2010 at 18:16

Wicksta said:
Wow that video proves if anything that camera technology can be 'too good' sometimes. You don't get anything like that kind of shake or sense of speed anymore.

Sod HD, bring back the old equipment from 20 years ago.

they should, bring back the turbos good times willl be had

Darkman · 22 Mar 2010 at 18:24

Von Smallhausen said:
F1 is boring now with a fixation to slow it down with new rules every year. If they really want to slow it doen then why doesn't Bernie Ecc introduce fluff to wrap around the rear axle as that slowed down my Scalextric no end when I was a bairn.

LOL

Bring back the banked curves and the cross-over track as well. That'd make it a bit more interesting.

P

Skii · 22 Mar 2010 at 23:25

Without a doubt my favorite onboard video of Ayrton is his qualifying lap at Monaco 1990

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1434658472

That left hander at Massenet must be terrifying enough without having to take your hand off the wheel and blip the revs for 3rd gear. Utter utter magic.

schumi84 · 24 Mar 2010 at 18:30

^ ^ That is incredible, when you look at how much work he had to do back then (as did all the drivers) to keep the car on the black stuff you realise how comparitively easy the drivers of today have it.

One can only hope that the racing gets as good as it used to be back then

Duke · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:40

schumi84 said:
One can only hope that the racing gets as good as it used to be back then

The amount of down-force cars have now (well for the last, what 10-15 years?), we won't see that close racing again.

sunama · 25 Mar 2010 at 14:37

Skii said:
Without a doubt my favorite onboard video of Ayrton is his qualifying lap at Monaco 1990

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1434658472

Fantastic!!!

What is amazing is that he was actually held up by a slower car for a few corners during that pole position lap.

He was unquestionably the pole meister and for me, the best driver I've ever seen in the wet.

In race trim though, I would still pick M.Schumacher over him. MS is the master when it comes to putting together big chamionship points totals.

I'm amazed that he would've been 50 years old now. If we assume that he would've quit racing at around 40, his last year wouldve been 2000. Had he lived, he and MS would've had some ding-dong battles for 6 or so years. Even in 1994, we were beginning to see a pattern of MS vs Senna emerging. In Senna's last race, MS was hounding Senna from behind, so the battle had already begun.